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Is there an unabridged, beautifully illustrated complete collection of Hans Christan Andersen's fairytales?
Claymore Claymore Apr 21, 2022 06:47AM
Hello all, am getting into fairytales again at the moment and was wondering if there is a complete unabridged (and relatively unbowdlerised, though I do understand that because they are translated it can be hard to get a 100% faithful accurate translation that is also a pleasure to read) edition of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytales, in hardcover, in English language, with lots of illustrations?

I own reprints of An Illustrated Treasury of Swedish Folk and Fairy Tales - John Bauer and East of the Sun and West of the Moon - Kay Nielsen (those are the names of the illustrators not the original author/storyteller) and am looking for something along those lines, with large pages as in at least an A4 sort of size. I would strongly prefer it if the illustrations were in colour, as for text size my eyesight is ok but would prefer if it were not absolutely tiny ideally just to future proof it a tad in case my vision diminishes.

I do not mind buying more than one book to get a complete set and in fact that might be better if it means it's a bit less unwieldy to lift and move around, so if it's say, a set of 2, 3 or 4 volumes that is all good with me. If you do not know of an edition that meets all my requirements I would still be interested to know what you consider to be the best illustrated edition of his works. (I have used the Arthur Rackham illustrated edition as a context as I cannot post a discussion topic without one, would readers here recommend this edition?) Thankyou to everyone who takes the time to read this and respond :)



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